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The speaker argues that methods such as neural networks prevailed because they worked better than approaches built around elegant integrals and graphical models.
Richard Socher · Humanity’s Last Invention — Richard Socher of Recursive · 14 Sep 2026
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“I had all kinds of beautiful integrals and graphical models, but it just worked better.”55:32Report a misattribution
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